Just replace some words to make it about Cricket.. The post is so content lite it could be made to be about anything with minor modifications. It says nothing useful while seeming profound.
Ugh, that's the best he can come up with? "It's probably just a fluke and might be different elsewhere"
I found this page which seems to be for RPGs or something but gives some alternate theories, including one involving water derived from evidence from comets and meteors.
http://arcana.wikidot.com/alien-amino-acids
Vote with your dollars. I've put off buying a fancy phone, but seeing the way that apple has treated it's developers and customers I will definitely not be getting an iphone. These days I've been liking more and more the OLD apple. Before ipods and iphones and OSX and brushed aluminum. But I digress. I eagerly await a capable android phone on verizon. Hope they don't screw that one up.
Unfortunately, that won't work as well in this particular case. See, the regular consumer loves the iPhone and has absolutely no idea about the difficulties facing third party developers (it's questionable if they'd care even if they knew). Regardless of what we do, the iPhone will continue to sell like hotcakes.
What we need to do is to fire up a shit storm, and I believe we're seeing the start of that. Keeping my fingers crossed that Apple upper management will: 1) notice it, and 2) take it to heart.
The regular consumer will notice that friends using Pre/Android/something else have cool apps like Google Voice that aren't available on the iPhone, and might buy a different phone come upgrade time.
Of course, there has to be a different phone that's desirable enough, and from what I've heard, that isn't the case yet.
As if Google and Palm wont have their own horrible technological, political and/or ideological problems with their devices. They both have early-stage app-stores too, you know. Google also has a history of no-comment on important issues and closing down / kicking out accounts from their services for unknown reasons, e.g. closing ad-sense accounts without payment.
There are too many parts involved and too little competition that we pretty much have to take bits of any given device and leave other bits alone in order to stay reasonably happy.
You know what the result would be if this noise gets the Google Voice app allowed onto the iPhone? It would be a Google Voice app that I can't use because they don't support GV in the UK. sigh. It's never going to be perfect.
What defunct hamburger chain is he speaking of? I assumed all the chains did that, let McD's do the research then open up across the street (Burger King, Hardees, etc)
Taking a photo of your keychain is supposed to be kind of a bad idea since someone could easily cut a key from a decent quality photo. Of course I'm sure there are easier ways to break into your house but still.
As someone who has tried cutting keys that way, its a little harder than it sounds. Doing it by hand, from a picture, is rather difficult (took around an hour to make an even close to working key), and while it should be possible to make an automatic cutting device fromt he picture, someone in the position to do that is probably very unlikely to break into your house (especially considering the effort to find out which key it is, then track you down and figure out which house is yours, then figure out when you won't be home).
As far as the site goes, the idea is interesting, but it seems rather bland to me. When I read it I thought it might be interesting to try, but by the time I got to the site I didn't want to do their missions any more.
It's pretty impressive/scary what can be achieved by application of machine vision (reconstructing shape, dimensions and correcting for angle etc.) to the problem:
Yeah, I'm not really the paranoid type, I just think it's funny how people will do stuff like that without a second thought. 95% of locks can probably be circumvented with a bump key.
Did you hear about Dutch insurance companies warning people not to post to Twitter and social networks that they are going on a vacation? Burglars are online too apparently... :-)
I'm glad to see they at least mentioned Tesla at the end of the article. It's only been 100 years since he was doing this stuff and we're just now catching up to his work.
